Background
Huáng Yǒng Pīng was born on February 18, 1954 in Xiamen, Fujian, China.
2009
黄永 砯
Huáng Yǒng Pīng was born on February 18, 1954 in Xiamen, Fujian, China.
As a self-taught student, some of his earliest artistic inspirations came from Joseph Beuys, John Cage, and Marcel Duchamp. Huáng Yǒng Pīng later graduated from art school in Hangzhou in 1982, and formed Xiamen Dada in 1986.
Huang's oeuvre can be characterized by four periods: anti-artistic affectation (fan jiaoshi zhuyi), anti-self-expression (fan ziwo biaoxian he xingshi zhuyi), anti-art (fan yishu), and anti-history (fanyishushi). At the age of 35 in 1989, Huang traveled to Paris to partake in the seminal exhibition Magiciens de la terre. He later immigrated to France and lived there ever since.
In 1999, he represented France in the Venice Biennale. In 2016, his piece "Empires" was selected for the Monumenta biennial exposition at the Grand Palais in Paris.
Xiamen Dada was a group formed by Huang Yong Ping with Zha Lixiong, Liu Yiling, Lin Chun and Jiao Yaoming in 1986, as a postmodernist, radical avant-garde group. However, their works were often perceived as modern. The group publicly burned their works in protest. The group later withheld from any other public showings.
Yong Ping Huang was represented by Gladstone Gallery in New York, Kamel Mennour in Paris, and Tang Contemporary in Beijing.
He died of illness in Paris at the age of 65 on 20th October, 2019.
Quotations: "Artwork to artist is like opium to men. Until art is destroyed, life is never peaceful."
